Mysterious oil spill in the Atlantic Ocean threatens marine biodiversity and local people in Brazil
Graphical abstract
Coral reef habitats exposed to the oil spill event of 2019 in the northeastern coast off Brazil. Photographic credit: Diego Nigro.
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CRediT authorship contribution statement
Rafael Almeida Magris:Conceptualization, Writing - review & editing, Supervision, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing - original draft.Tommaso Giarrizzo:Conceptualization, Writing - review & editing, Data curation.
Declaration of competing interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Acknowledgements
T.G. was funded by a productivity grant from CNPq (# 311078/2019-2).
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